Sir Richard congratulated the passengers on their “impressive” journey, adding: “Very best to all the crew from me and all the team at Virgin Galactic. Billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos travelled into space with three crew members aboard a New Shepard rocket (Photo: Reuters) The entrepreneur is locked in a 21st-century space race with Sir Richard Branson, who successfully reached the edge of space in his Virgin Galactic rocket plane on 11 July, and Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and space exploration company SpaceX.
The 60-foot-tall (18-meter) New Shepard rocket and crew capsule lifted off from Blue Origin. Mr Bezos added that seeing the Earth’s own fragility with his own eyes was “very profound,” saying that it was “one thing to recognise that intellectually – it’s another thing to actually see with your own eyes how fragile that really is, and that was amazing.” Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos with the New Shepard booster after landing Wednesday. “I loved it – I loved being here with all of you… I had a great time – I want to go again, fast.” “I could always beat the guys on what they were doing because I was always stronger and I’ve always done everything on my own,” she said. Ms Funk said she’d been waiting a long time to finally make it into space, despite her training in the US and Russia. “The zero-G may be one of the biggest surprises because it felt so normal, almost like we were as humans evolved to be in that environment, which I know is impossible…it’s a very pleasurable experience.” “My expectations were high and they were dramatically exceeded,” he added.
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